| | Miller was an [[atheist]]. In 1995, Miller stated, "I have no formal religion but there's a space in my head for it. Maybe I would believe in God if he believed in me. But we're living in a reality that's so hard to understand. In the last 75 years the human race has been humiliated in a way we've never known before…"<ref>http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Arthur_Miller</ref> | | Miller was an [[atheist]]. In 1995, Miller stated, "I have no formal religion but there's a space in my head for it. Maybe I would believe in God if he believed in me. But we're living in a reality that's so hard to understand. In the last 75 years the human race has been humiliated in a way we've never known before…"<ref>http://www.celebatheists.com/wiki/Arthur_Miller</ref> |
| | + | {{cquote|“We are what we always were in [[Salem, Massachusetts|Salem]], but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!}} |
| | Born in Harlem to Jewish working-class parents, Miller would be deeply affected by the ruin of his father's business during the Great Depression. He went to the University of Michigan in 1934 to study journalism, where he first began writing plays.<ref name="kirj">http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm</ref> Miller returned to New York after graduating, and in 1940, he married Mary Slattery, his college sweetheart. His first play to be produced on Broadway, ''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' (1944), was a failure, closing after only four shows.<ref>http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/arthur_miller_timeline.html</ref> His next play, ''All my Sons'' (1947), did considerably better, earning him a [[Tony Award]]. | | Born in Harlem to Jewish working-class parents, Miller would be deeply affected by the ruin of his father's business during the Great Depression. He went to the University of Michigan in 1934 to study journalism, where he first began writing plays.<ref name="kirj">http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/amiller.htm</ref> Miller returned to New York after graduating, and in 1940, he married Mary Slattery, his college sweetheart. His first play to be produced on Broadway, ''The Man Who Had All the Luck'' (1944), was a failure, closing after only four shows.<ref>http://www.theatredatabase.com/20th_century/arthur_miller_timeline.html</ref> His next play, ''All my Sons'' (1947), did considerably better, earning him a [[Tony Award]]. |